Apocalypse. Now.

Here’s what we don’t need: a losing streak at the hands of the Chicago White Sox. Last night’s 7-3 crapfest was not the way to start a homestand against a weaker opponent. Carl Crawford was up to his old tricks again going 0-for-4 with five LOB’s. Lester struggled, but that was obvious from the start. Leaving him in for seven runs and 127 pitches, that’s all on Tito.

These are the opportunities the Red Sox need to capitalize on to get some breathing room in the AL East. The White Sox are six games under .500 in the worst division in baseball. These are the games we should be seeing 14-plus runs, more balls bouncing off the Monster than usually smack off Jeter’s chin during a Celine Dion concert, light-towers exploding from Papi homers and Sox players collapsing from exhaustion from rounding the bases so many times. It’s time to bring the thunder, bring the lightning, bring the frigging nukes, and start playing the game with some first-place swagger at home.

And by the way, that is not Alfredo Aceves posing with his daughter before she heads off to prom…that’s his wife.

On the way to the previous monthly meeting an elderly lady was stopped by a highway patrolman. He ask for her drivers license and insurance. The lady took out the required information and handed it to the patrolman. In with the cards he was surprised to see she had a conceal carry permit. He looked at her and ask if she had a weapon in her possession at this time. She responded that she indeed had .45 automatic in her glove box. Something, body language or the way she said it made him want to ask if she had any other firearms. She did admit to also having a 9mm Glock in her center console. Now he had to ask one more time if that was all, she responded once again she did have just one more, a .38 special in her purse. The officer then ask her what was she so afraid of? She looked him right in the eye and said, "Not a damn thing!

"Chicago, on the other hand, has lost its last three and is free-falling through the central division standings. Which means they should be all too familiar with the face-down-in-the-turf position they’ll likely be assuming around the fifth inning."

Red is no longer allowed to bad-mouth. Chisox must be reading the blog.

alright y'all, mlbtv isn't working right, livefyre isn't working right, the red sox aren't working right. i'm gonna go take a shower and get ready for bed. i have an interview tomorrow, so send pv's my way :)

Becky already gave up. I noticed that the TiqIQ "widget" just won't load. The page never loads for me. But since I'm using firefox on a Mac I seem to be able to comment without difficulty. @BeardedInMD